NVIDIA (port) driver fails to create /dev/nvidactl; 8.2Prerelease

[Duane H. Hesser]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 05:07:09 -0500 (EST)
Michael Remski <mremski at comcast.net> wrote:

> Duane:
> As a datapoint, I installed the ports/x11/nvidia-driver on a system 
> running 8.2 Pre Release from a /usr/src that picked up things from 
> yesterday.
> FreeBSD payne.remski.net 8.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE #3: Sat Jan 
> 29 05:26:40 EST 2011     root at payne.remski.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PAYNE 
> amd64
> 
> The video card is a GeForce 210 PCIE card, the version in the Makefile is 
> 256.53.  I did nothing more than make install the port and adjust my 
> xorg.conf.
> 
> m

Thanks.  That changes things a bit for me.  I'll try updating
my sources again (they're only 3 days old, but who knows?) build
a new kernel, and re-install the port.

This is the sort of report I needed; thanks.
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Duane H. Hesser <dhesser at accima.com>
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